Continuous menstruation

The duration of normal menstruation for women should be controlled at around 3 to 7 days. If the duration of menstruation is too short or too long, it should be taken seriously. Most of the time women find that their menstrual period lasts for a short period of time, but some women find that their menstrual period continues, which makes women extremely worried. So what is the reason for a woman's continuous menstruation?

Functional uterine bleeding (abbreviated as uterine bleeding), known as metrorrhagia in traditional Chinese medicine, refers to the untimely and continuous menstrual bleeding. If the onset is rapid and the amount of bleeding is heavy, it is called "melao"; if the onset is slow, the amount of bleeding is small, but the duration is long, it is called "leakage".

This disease is a common disease in obstetrics and gynecology, characterized by severe disorders of menstrual cycle and menstrual volume. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the pathogenesis of this disease is mainly due to damage to the Chong and Ren meridians, which cannot control menstrual blood, so menstrual blood flows from the uterus at an untimely time. Clinically, it is generally divided into five types: blood heat type, blood deficiency type, spleen deficiency type, blood stasis type, and liver and kidney yang deficiency type. Syndrome differentiation and treatment can achieve good results.

1) Patients with blood-heat type have symptoms of heavy bleeding, bright red in color, with small blood clots, sometimes more and sometimes less, and continuous bleeding, accompanied by headache, bitter taste in the mouth, irritability, red lips and face, burning urine, dry stool, red tongue with yellow coating, and slippery and rapid pulse. The therapeutic recipe is to stew lean meat with corn silk: take 30 grams of corn silk, 120 grams of lean meat, an appropriate amount of refined salt, a little MSG, cut the lean meat into pieces, put it into a ceramic pot together with the corn silk, add 500 ml of water, put it in a steamer, cover it and steam it until the meat is cooked, add refined salt and MSG, take it while hot, once a day.

2) Patients with blood deficiency type present with excessive or unclear menstrual flow, light color without clots, dizziness and palpitations, pale or sallow complexion, shortness of breath and laziness to speak, fatigue and weight loss, pale tongue, thin white fur, and thready and weak pulse or weak pulse when pressed hard. The dietary therapy recipe is to stew chicken with cuttlefish bones: take 30 grams of cuttlefish bones, 30 grams of angelica, 100 grams of chicken, and appropriate amounts of fine salt and MSG. Dice the chicken, slice the angelica, and crush the cuttlefish bones. Put them into a ceramic pot, add 500 ml of water and appropriate amount of fine salt, and steam them in a steamer. Eat once a day. Generally, it will be effective after 3-5 times.

3) Patients with spleen deficiency type have symptoms such as untimely menstruation, metrorrhagia followed by dripping, light blood in color and thin texture, shortness of breath, fatigue, pale complexion, poor appetite, pale tongue, thin white fur, and weak pulse. The therapeutic recipe is to stew lotus seeds with dried lychees: take 20 dried lychees and 60 grams of lotus seeds. Remove the shells and cores of the dried lychees and the cores of the lotus seeds. Wash them and put them in a ceramic jar with 500 ml of water. Steam them in a steamer over medium heat and then take them. It usually takes 3-7 times to take effect.

4) Patients with blood stasis type present with irregular menstrual bleeding, sometimes flowing and sometimes coming, or spotting, or sudden metrorrhagia after a long period of menstrual bleeding, followed by continuous spotting, purple and black blood clots, lower abdominal pain, dark purple tongue, thin white tongue coating, and sluggish pulse. The dietary therapy recipe can use 50-60 grams of motherwort, 15 grams of cyperus rotundus, and 2 eggs. Add appropriate amount of water and cook together. After the eggs are cooked, peel them and cook for a while. Remove the residue, eat the eggs and drink the soup, once a day, for 4-5 days.

5) Patients with liver-kidney yang deficiency type present with early menstruation, light menstrual flow, prolonged bleeding time, light or dark menstrual blood, accompanied by dizziness, tinnitus, lightheadedness, insomnia, soreness of waist and knees, fever in the five parts of the body, red tongue with little coating, and thin and rapid pulse. For diet therapy, you can stew lean meat with fungus and lotus root nodes: take 15 grams of fungus, 30 grams of lotus root nodes, 15 grams of rock sugar, and 100 grams of lean pork, put them in a casserole, add water and stew until cooked. Take one dose per day, divided into two doses, for 5-7 consecutive days.